March 26, 2025
The Origin of Weird: Angel’s Glow
A mysterious blue-green glow emanated from the wounds of soldiers on the Shiloh battlefield in April 1862. Those with glowing injuries seemed to survive at higher rates than their comrades, earning the phenomenon the name "Angel's Glow." For 140 years, this Civil War medical mystery remained unsolved.
The Battle of Shiloh stands as one of the Civil War's bloodiest engagements, with nearly 24,000 casualties over just two days of fighting. Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant were caught by surprise when Confederate troops launched a dawn attack on April 6th. The fierce combat around Shiloh Church and the area known as "Hornet's Nest" exemplified the brutal nature of this conflict, where mini balls, artillery fire, and bayonets caused devastating injuries.
With primitive medical knowledge and no understanding of infection control, wounded soldiers typically faced dire odds. Yet something extraordinary happened as the injured lay waiting for treatment in the cold, muddy battlefield. Their wounds began to glow—an unsettling sight that nonetheless seemed to correlate with improved survival.
The scientific breakthrough came in 2001 when 17-year-old Bill Martin, whose mother studied bioluminescent bacteria, connected the dots. The glowing came from Photorhabdus luminescens, bacteria that live symbiotically with nematode worms. These organisms typically can't survive human body temperature, but the unseasonably cold weather and soldiers' hypothermic conditions created the perfect environment. As nematodes consumed infected tissue, they released bacteria that produced natural antibiotics—effectively delivering life-saving treatment decades before modern medicine understood the concept.
Join us as we explore this fascinating intersection of military history, medical mystery, and microbiology that reminds us how nature sometimes provides unexpected paths to survival in humanity's darkest moments. Subscribe to History Buffoons for more of history's strangest and most compelling stories.
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Shiloh: Animated Battle Map by American Battlefield Trust
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Chapters
00:00 - Corona Sunbrew Taste Test
02:32 - Origin of Weird: Battle of Shiloh
07:37 - The Fierce Fighting at Hornet's Nest
14:11 - Civil War Wounds and Medical Crisis
18:06 - Angel's Glow: The Battlefield Mystery
22:39 - Teenage Scientists Solve 140-Year Mystery
Transcript
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Vince vaughn's best work should have got an oscar okay, so this is um the origin of Weird by the History Buffoons.
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She's Kate, I'm Bradley and we are on a time crunch.
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We are on a time crunch oh my God, we have to do the thing.
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That's okay.
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So we don't normally do a beer on Origin.
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We've done one before.
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I think it's only been one, however, this is new.
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This is brand new.
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I saw this.
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I texted to Kate the picture.
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She's like we got to try that.
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I'm like, all right, let's do it.
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So Kate is a big fan of Modelo.
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She likes it with lime.
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Yes, this is a Corona.
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Yes, Very similar.
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Same company, but this is called Corona Sunbrew.
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Citrus Cerveza, cerveza, which means beer.
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I was going to say head Means, what Head Cabeza, my bad.
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Yeah, that's way different.
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Anyways, because.
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I don't say Magusa Cerveza, I say Magusa Cerveza Cerveza.
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But it does say that it has brewed with real citrus peels, with a splash of real citrus juice.
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So it's got lime and orange in it oh my gosh, I want to try it, let's do it, let's do it, sip oh my oh, oh my, oh dear, oh my, that is not bad oh my, that's, quite tasty that's quite refreshing if you like citrus and you like beer.
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This is quite refreshing If you like citrus and you like beer.
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This is quite refreshing.
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This is quite delicious.
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Holy balls.
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Yeah, sorry we had to take another sip.
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That is so good, oh my gosh.
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I'm ready for summer.
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I am so glad I bought a 12-pack instead of a 6-pack.
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Yes, because it was only $5 more for a 12-pack.
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It's great.
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Sign me up.
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I love it.
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No, this is really good.
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I should have brought two over here, son of a bitch.
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So this is the origin of weird.
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Origin of weird.
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Let's go, let's find the origin of weird.
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We're going to go back in history, naturally.
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Well, that's what we do.
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We're going to go to April 1862.
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Do you know what happened in the United States in 1862-ish?
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April 1860?
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Yeah, just like the year 1862.
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I wasn't around then 1861, 1863, 64, 65, particularly.
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Can I say something real quick?
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Uh-huh, I'm excited to find out.
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The American.
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Civil War 186262 1861 to 1865.
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Oh sure, we are going to be in april 1862, gotcha, and so we're almost a year in at this point okay, okay.
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So the union led by ulysses s grant, so the north had their eyes set on corinth, mississippi corinth yes okay, I'm gonna ask you a question before we move on to corinth let's do it?
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What does the s and ulysses s grant mean?
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stupendous no shoddy no steven no I have no idea.
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That should have been your answer.
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I have no idea.
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Yes, because it literally means nothing.
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So he just had a middle initial.
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So his name was Hiram or Hiram or something like that.
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Ulysses was his middle name, oh, and Grant was his last name.
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And when he signed up for the Army.
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Whoever wrote his name down wrote it down as Ulysses Grant, but he didn't know that Ulysses wasn't his first name.
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Real name yeah, yeah.
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So he just put whoever it was.
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I read it, but I don't care right now.
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But whoever wrote it down was like S is a good middle initial, we'll just put S, so he was always, since then, known as Ulysses S Grant.
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I had no idea.
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Yeah, okay, anyway, corinth.
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What's up, Hiram?
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So Corinth was a major railroad junction in.
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Mississippi, so it was a really vital artery for the Confederacy.
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Do you know how to spell Mississippi?
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M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.
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There it is.
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Okay, I learned that from my like really young elementary school days, okay so so for the folks listening at home, she just put her fingernails on her shirt and was like, yeah, I'm good, yep, I'm good.
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Anyways, oh wait, she's her fingernails on her shirt and we're like, yeah, I'm good yep anyways.
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Oh wait, she's taking a sip of beer and go.
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So corinth was a major railroad junction, so if you cut that off, you choke off the south's ability to move troops okay um, and their supplies, right, right.
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So grant's army was camped out at pittsburgh landing, which was about 20 miles away from corinth, okay, and they were waiting for reinforcements from don carlos buell's army of ohio don carlos buell.
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Yeah, so that's quite the name so grant and buell were going to like combine forces.
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Okay, pittsburgh landing so grant's waiting for this other infantry yeah, they were going to merge together.
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Yes.
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Super Army yes, exactly Okay.
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So they were spread out, they were a little bit relaxed.
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Sure.
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And no one really expected any kind of assault here.
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Okay, but it happened, oh, dear Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.
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Not familiar.
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He was actually really well respected, he was experienced and he was actually probably one of the highest ranking officials in the civil war.
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Oh really, yes, I did not know that.
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Yes, so he knew he had hit grand before buell and his army showed up sure I wonder if my brother my brother r, my oldest brother was a huge fan of the Civil War, Like he studied it a lot in high school and such.
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I wonder if you know about this guy.
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Yeah, maybe so days before the battle, and I will explain the battle Sure, it rained.
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Oh really, it wasn't just like a drivel, it was the acid rain was.
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It was a downpour, oh dear, and it turned all these roads into muddy awfulness.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound good so imagine trying to move tens of thousands of men, cannons, wagons through this muddy, nasty quagmire of a mess I like that you used the word quagmire.
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That's fantastic it slowed johnston's north, but it didn't stop him, well, no, but it slowed him down.
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But by the evening of April 5th 1862, his army was positioned just a few miles from the Union camps, ready to pounce right.
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Sure.
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So April 6th, Sunday morning, like early early early, early, super early in the morning, at dawn, oh, early, super early in the morning.
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At dawn.
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Oh dear.
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The Confederates burst from the woods.
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So Mississippi, tennessee were in the thick of wooded areas.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So they were hiding in the woods.
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Okay.
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And it was a complete surprise to the Union soldiers, Many of them like green recruits like super fresh.
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Super new yeah.
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Completely caught off guard Sure, and the initial assault hit the Union divisions of Sherman and Prentiss.
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Okay.
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And then there was chaos, confusion, desperate fighting.
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The Confederates pushed really hard driving the Union line back towards Pittsburgh Landing because, remember, they're like advancing to corinth right, sure.
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So the fighting was particularly intense around shiloh church okay okay, a shiloh church was a small log structure that became kind of the focal point of the battle okay, okay so there was like a thicket of trees around shiloh church called the hornet's nest.
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Oh, dear and a bunch of like ominous well, it's like a bunch of like undergrowth where the union soldiers like made like a huge desperate stand, okay.
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So, um, the fighting there was pretty fierce.
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It was brutal close quarter struggle.
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Sure, union soldiers dug in behind whatever they could find, poured volley after volley into the advancing confederates from the trees, oh jesus, okay right so the sound of musket fire was like a swarm of angry hornets, hence the name Hornet's Nest.
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No, I mean, that makes sense Okay.
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They held on for hours.
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Oh dear.
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By precious time for the rest of the Union Army to regroup Right.
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So tragically, general Johnson was killed leading an attack, and maybe that's why you didn't hear of him.
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Oh, because he died within a year of the Civil war so he, he died early on.
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That that's probably a good reason why I, I personally, I mean, yeah, again, I'm not a civil war historian, but I mean I, I feel like, and all I've learned, and like again my brother, huge civil war guy.
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He used to do a lot of shit yeah not reenactment, reenactments or anything like that, but you know he used to do a lot of I don't want to say reports, I guess.
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Whatever it was, yeah, he was interested, yeah, very interested.
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So I okay that would make sense, because if he died pretty early on, which you said within a year, yes, you okay, though, you just crossed your eyes, oh my god.
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The the corona sun brew is just amazing.
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I love it no, I am actually.
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I am a big fan of this and I really wish my fridge wasn't over there, because I want to grab a second one shortly so a bullet severed an artery in his leg and then he bled to blood, to death yeah, that will do it yeah so it was a devastating blow to the confederacy, both tactically and psychologically, sure?
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and then, uh, pgt borogar don't ask me what his initials are, but or, what his full name is.
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But what is his full name?
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pgt.
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Borogar took command okay and, by nightfall, believed he had secured a victory and called a halt to the attacks.
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Oh shit, but here's the kicker.
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Oh dear.
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While the Confederates were celebrating, yes, buell's army was arriving, of course, and they started ferrying across the Tennessee River, which was right there.
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Right.
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Reinforcing Grant's battered forces.
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Okay, okay.
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I swear we'll get to the weird part.
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I trust you.
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The Union now had the numbers and grant was ready to counter-attack okay so april 7th.
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Now we're talking a whole 24 hours later.
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Right, the tables turned oh dear grant launched a counter attack, pushing back against the exhausted confederate lines.
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Buell's army are fresh sure they haven't seen battle recently, so they are fresh.
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They just showed up, yeah, so I mean they've been probably resting on their way in Exactly.
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Even if they've been marching in or whatever, but they haven't been attacking.
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So yeah, yes, yeah, no, that makes sense.
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So the fighting was just as bad as the previous day, but now the Union had the momentum.
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Right so.
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Union gunboats on the Tennessee River added to their volleys and attacks.
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Sure.
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And border guard, realizing that he was outnumbered and outgunned, ordered a retreat back to Corinth.
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Okay.
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And Grant chose not to follow them.
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Oh, okay, that ends the Battle of Shiloh.
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Okay, Okay.
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And Shiloh was the church.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Okay, the casualties of Shiloh.
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Okay, okay, and shiloh was the church.
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Yes, yes, yes, okay, the casualties of shiloh how many, oh my god it is considered the sixth deadliest battle in the civil war.
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Holy shit, gettysburg is number one at 50 000 something, yeah battle of shiloh was approximately three sorry nope 23,000, 24,000.
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Holy balls, yeah, that many.
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So Union casualties Wow, 1,754 killed, 8,000 wounded.
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Jesus, 30,000 missing or captured.
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Confederate casualties about 10,000, 11,000.
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That's crazy Mm-hmm.
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So sixth deadliest battle in the Civil War.
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Thousand mission missing or captured.
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Confederate casualties about ten thousand eleven thousand, that's crazy so six deadliest battle in the civil war.
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There were about 50 major battles and another 100 smaller battles.
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Okay, it's funny because if that's the six deadliest, yeah, I, I honestly over like a 24 hour period plus or minus, right I I I mean, my memory is not the greatest.
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I've had a few beers since then, but I've never heard of this one.
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I know so that's, that's just wild that it would be like the sixth most deadliest battle.
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I just I've never heard of it.
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So that's just wild.
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So Grant, despite his victory, actually did face a lot of criticism.
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Okay.
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The press said that he was being lambasted for being caught off guard I like that word and allowing his army to be surprised Sure.
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No, I get that and many called for his removal, oh Lord.
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But President Lincoln said, quote I can't spare this man, he fights, end quote he fights, yes, good man.
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So he recognized Grant's tenacity, his ability to learn from his mistakes and his determination.
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And, of course, grant later becomes a US president, right.
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Right.
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Okay.
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So Shiloh Right Also highlighted the importance of logistics and supplies.
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Right, the sheer scale of the battle strained the capabilities of both armies.
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The need for efficient transportation, communication supply lines becomes evident.
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Right, the use of steamboats on the Tennessee River was pivotal for the Union.
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Oh, I suppose yeah, yeah, I mean just to probably move supplies, troops, whatever, yeah, right so shiloh marked a shift in the psychological landscape of the war okay the soldiers who survived were starting to to to um receive like get the ptsd what we now call ptsd.
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Yeah, exactly right so the battle also showed the importance of naval supports in on the river right right the gumboats was just a huge victory for the union and it provided crucial artillery support against the Confederates right Sure.
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So in the end, shiloh was brutal, chaotic, transformative.
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Lots of people died.
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Now imagine the wounds, oh dear, that the soldiers endured.
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I don't want to because it sounds terrible.
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But I'm going to tell it to you.
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Oh dear, we're going to talk musket ball wounds.
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That sounds terrible.
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Have you heard of the mini ball?
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Yes, I have actually do you know what it is?
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no I put you asked me if I heard of it, yeah, so it is um like it's a lead bullet right that is kind of the size and shape as like a thimble, like a sewing thimble, sure okay so it's designed to expand upon impact, resulting in massive tissue damage oh, so it kind of tears through you kind of thing, sure so it can shatter bones, tore through tear, through muscle um.
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It can carry dirt and clothing fragments deep into the wound, increasing risk of infection, extensive internal damage with vital organs, etc.
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Sure, sure, sure.
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And then we've got artillery wounds.
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So this is shrapnel and cannonballs.
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Oh dear.
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Shrapnel can tear through groups of soldiers, causing multiple wounds at once it sure can yep.
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Cannonballs can crush limbs, even whole bodies, and then we have bayonet and saber wounds, wounds which is a lot less common at this time but still there and close quarter combat and very dangerous, like if you got a bayonet, especially because the way they were shaped.
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Yeah, you were pretty fucked back in those days because, the shape of them just really fucked.
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You couldn't close the wound right kind of thing.
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So yeah, no, that those were a while, but yeah, maybe not as prevalent, but still there yeah, so and then we have the infections.
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Yep, major killer.
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Oh, in the civil war, oh yes, medical practices were primitive.
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Antiseptics were hardly used.
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Okay, correct me if I'm wrong.
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I'm sorry to interrupt.
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I don't know if what I heard when I heard this was correct, but didn't that kill like almost as much, if not more?
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I actually don't have the number on that but you've heard you've heard something along that lines that it killed a lot of people it did kill a lot of people could you imagine how many people would have survived with the proper care?
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But they didn't have that back then, obviously but that brings me to something weird.
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Weird it's called angels glow angels glow the battlefield itself is soaked by rain churned into mud sure breeding ground for disease.
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Right remember andersonville oh, I sure do.
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Yes, place is messed up with the issue of the limited medical understanding at the time and the lack of knowledge about infection and effective treatments yeah the wounded lay waiting for medical attention and this weird phenomenon okay, starts to happen.
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Oh, in the darkness of night, because they're laying here for a couple days, yeah they're waiting.
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Yes, Basically yeah.
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